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Scott Manning
Personal blog · scottmanning.comhistorypolitics
Scott Manning's personal blog at scottmanning.com covers history and politics. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Scott Manning's posts on Iraq oil and the 'Blood for Oil' claim, and on communist death tolls, as background in debates about war and politics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Medievalism, Classical Reception, Military History, Joan of Arc
What Hacker News says?
Good to see that old "Blood For Oil" canard being trotted out again. http://www.scottmanning.com/archives/howmuchoilfromiraq.php http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/03/17/a-decade-later-and-the-i... It was a bad argument then and still a bad argument now.
Comment linking /archives/howmuchoilfromiraq.php
on “CTBTO statement on the unusual seismic event detected in the DPRK”Lends a whole other colour to that scene from The Matrix... Agent Smith monologuing at Morpheus bound to the chair. > Agent Smith: I’d like to share a revelation during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move…
Comment linking /content/smith-interrogates-morpheus-transcript/
on “Ushikuvirus: Newly Discovered Giant Virus May Offer Clues to the Origin of Life”Does the love of death make one more left-wing? https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-... http://www.scottmanning.com/content/communist-body-count/
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on “How the Fear of Death Makes People More Right-Wing”